United States Ninth Circuit

The single publication rule should be applied under the Privacy Act to general Internet publications. Summary judgment for defendants on a suit brought under the Privacy Act for improper disclosure of plaintiff's personal information via a posting on a public Internet website is affirmed where the district court properly applied the Act's statute of limitations.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/11/2005
• Decided 03/14/2006
• Published 03/14/2006

Judges

• BYBEE, Circuit Judge., Before PROCTER HUG, JR., MARSHA S. BERZON, and JAY S. BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marianne Dugan, Facaros & Dugan, Eugene, OR, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Karin J. Immergut, U.S. Attorney, and James L. Sutherland, Assistant United States Attorney, Eugene, OR, for the appellee.